my REAL wall - 17 August 2010, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

In the last few months I've been busily getting on with other things, most of which have eaten into postcard time.

In addition to eating into postcard time, artefacts of my non-postcard life have been impinging into the space usually reserved for my REAL wall in the kitchen.

On the wall you can see traces of what i've been up to and what is to blame for my poor post record of late.

In the top left you can see the library timetable for Ealing libraries, which have an awesome graphic novel section. Lately, Ive been spending a huge amount of time reading graphic novels in Westminster libraries (where I have my latest Yaa on the Road photo exhibition), and have read pretty much everything that they have now. Elena told me that Ealing libraries have a large graphic novel section too, so I recently went there to join up.

The long strip that runs down the right side is 5 pairs of tickets for the Bush Theatre, which is my local theatre. We've bought tickets to every show of the next season. as local residents we get tickets for only 90p each, so this whole set of tickets cost us only £9!!! Given that the last show, The Great British Country Fete, was absolutely brilliant, I can't wait to get all these shows in.

Down at the bottom are all the Tesco clubcard points we are collecting obsessively. These are worth 4 times as much as their face value when you buy university courses from the Open University, so we have been scavenging these wherever we can.

Up in the top right corner are some 2 for 1 vouchers to some UK attractions. We used oneof these vouchers this weekend to get 2 tickets to Warwick castle, where we saw knights and princesses, jousting and sword-fighting and medieval historical plays and birds of prey. It was great!

So yeah, this last few months I've settled into domestic bliss, with all the associated highs and lows.

But still, you guys haven't abandonned me, and that makes me very happy indeed! In amongst the few pieces of post I've recieved in this quiet time are a Ryosuke Cohen Brain cell (centre) and a collage from Madmadge (centre left).

Also, just arrived through the door today from Italy, a lovely mixed media piece called "The Flow of life", which I think is no. 150 in a set! Thanks to Walter Festuccia for this!

my REAL wall - 27 July 2010, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

Elena recently came to the end of her contract at the school and to thank her for a years work she got loads and loads of cards.

my REAL wall - 8 July 2010, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

Finally, I get a little breathing space in amongst all the work and exhibitions I've been doing lately.

Here are the latest gems, including the long-awaited The Intercostal from Gareth.

As you can see, Elena is collecting vouchers to see Sex and the City. Not because she has any interest in the folm but cos it's free. You need 4 vouchers for a ticket, but I keep slipping one in the bin when we get to 3. I can't bear the thought of having to waste 90 minutes of my life watching that shit.

I'll start sending post again this month, as I've got some time in my schedule, so watch your mailboxes and thanks to everyone for all your great post!

my REAL wall in Bielefeld, Germany at the start of carnival season, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

Summer is here at last for us Europeans and for the last 10 years or so that has meant only one thing.

Carnival.

I've worked with Yaa Asantewaa, a carnival arts group in London, voluntarily since I left university and have made and worn costumes in Notting Hill Carnival almost every year since 2002.

After the costumes are made and worn in London, we take the show on the road the year after and travel to Denmark, Germany and France to tour.

This year our carnival season kicked off in Germany at the Bielefeld carnival and me and Elena had a great time on the road at this relatively small street party.

We did manage to get some time to look around the pleasant little town after the carnival and found ourselves a nice statue to put your postcards up on right outside the town hall

my REAL wall does DIY fridge change, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

Now finally settled into our new home, me and Elena spent Bank Holiday Monday doing odd jobs and DIY around the house. One of the DIY jobs we had to do this weekend was to change the way that the door on the fridge opens.

When we moved in, the door was fixed to open on the left (hinges on the right) which was really inconvenient because this meant that you were squeezed in between the wall.

Changing the door around was riddled with all sorts of little puzzles and the final one was to move the handle from the left to the right of the door, for which we had to drill some holes.

This left us with two pretty glaring holes, which I suggested we fill with polyfila.

"Chuh!" exclaimed Elena "Let's just stick a postcard on it"

So we got the fish out that was sent to us by Okadascat and stuck that over the holes. Elena was still not happy with how lonely the card looked on it's own and insisted that we put more cards up, so here they are!